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Nov 11Wed
  1. Hacker News AI58

    Hollywood Has Flipped on GenAI, 'If You Don't Have an AI Strategy, Don't Bother'

    Weta FX CEO Daniel Seah said Hollywood studios went from barring any generative AI use in early 2024 to telling vendors since the third quarter of this year that "if you don't have an AI strategy, don't bother to work with us." Weta signed a partnership with Taiwan's TAICCA at the Taiwan Creative Content Fest, and is working with Taiwanese studio Moonshine on artist-layer tools, while CTO Kimball Thurston said Weta uses outside video models such as Kling AI and ByteDance's Seedance where clients permit, hosted outside China for security reasons. Seah said Weta does not intend to replace artists or employees with AI, and the deal will have TAICCA and Taiwan's Ministry of Culture identify young talent for possible Weta internships in Wellington, Melbourne and Vancouver.

Nov 6Fri
  1. The Verge · AI38

    Grimes is going to star in an AI movie that’s coming to theaters

    Pop star Grimes will appear in the AI-generated sci-fi anthology film Gods Don't Give Gifts, lending both her likeness and vocal performance, with a December 4th theatrical release billed as "the first AI film to come to theatres." Produced by AI studio Fable and directed by Jack London (Gossip Goblin), the film is set in a future "where bodies are disposable and consciousness has been commoditized" and follows four interconnected stories.

Nov 5Thu
  1. Hacker News AI58

    China's first AI-generated film is a flop. Some still see it as the future

    The Guardian reports that Sanxingdui: Future Past, China's first fully AI-generated film, earned just 1.7m yuan (£191,000) at the box office despite costing "tens of millions" to make, with all visuals and some sound effects created by AI and editing done by humans. Despite the flop, film industry workers say investors believe AI films are the future because they can be far cheaper, and one state media commentary said the film may go down in cinematic history as the starting point of what came next.

Oct 30Fri
  1. Hacker News AI47

    AI microdrama edit of Neighbours worries actors and crew

    Former Neighbours actors and crew have raised concerns about a Fremantle and RoseBerry Media project that uses AI to scan decades of episodes and re-edit old footage into short vertical micro-dramas for mobile viewers, starting with footage of Margot Robbie. The companies say the tool only identifies material from original broadcast footage and that human editors approve every stage, but actors including Matt Werkmeister and Sam Clark say they were not approached and are unsure of their rights under contracts signed before streaming and AI existed. Sound recordist Bruce Findlay compared the process to "cutting up a Picasso," and the MEAA union said workers should be consulted before their likeness or expertise is used.

Oct 29Thu
  1. Hacker News AI58

    Prime's first AI-generated show is here, and it's a Vaseline-smeared mess

    Prime Video has premiered Castle Walls, a two-episode, 17-minutes-each series set in the 11th century around Alamut Castle, produced by Turkish studio Ay Yapım using generative video tools and billed as the first end-to-end AI-created series on a major streaming platform. The reviewer describes its visuals as looking like Vaseline-smeared Madame Tussauds creations melting in the sun, with overloaded cinematic imagery and banal dialogue, though the production used human voice actors and human screenwriters Kerem Deren and Çisil Hazal Tenim.

Oct 28Wed
  1. Hacker News AI38

    Meaningless as a laptop screensaver: reviewers slate Musk's AI-made Odyssey film

    Elon Musk released a seven-minute AI-generated first episode of an Odyssey adaptation made with Grok Imagine and London startup Wonder Studios, after criticising Christopher Nolan's film and promising a version "true to the art of Homer". Guardian critic Peter Bradshaw gave it one star, calling its dramatic moments "as motiveless and meaningless as the movement of shapes on a laptop screensaver", and a Telegraph reviewer described its "sloppy gruesomeness". Wonder co-founder Xavier Collins said the episode was made in under two weeks by a team of three for tens of thousands of dollars, and that the team would address criticism in the second episode.

Oct 26Mon
  1. TechCrunch · AI33

    Grok releases the first seven minutes of its AI-generated ‘Odyssey’

    Three months after Elon Musk said Grok would release a full-length, "historically accurate" movie version of "The Odyssey," Grok has published seven minutes, which it calls "Episode 1 of our Odyssey series." The piece, made with Wonder Studios and director Dev Walker, follows Musk's criticism of Christopher Nolan's adaptation for casting nonwhite and transgender actors. The reviewer says the footage lacks artistry, inspiration and human interest, offering no momentum or reason to care about anyone on-screen.